Christie's to sell Isaac Newton's handwritten notes for grea

Christie's to sell Isaac Newton's handwritten notes for greatest work


Handwritten notes that show one of history's greatest scientific minds in action are going up for auction in London.
Pages containing Isaac Newton's jotted revisions to his masterwork, the Principia, are expected to sell next month for between 600,000 pounds and 900,000 pounds (USD 850,000 and USD 1.3 million), auctioneer Christie's said Tuesday.
Published in 1687, Newton's Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy set out the laws of gravitation and motion and is considered a scientific watershed. A first edition of the book sold at auction for USD 3.7 million in 2016.
Thomas Venning, head of books and manuscripts at Christie's in London, said the book reinvented our understanding of the universe.

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